On 11 November 2018, we commemorated the end of the First World War, a social, cultural, political, and military cataclysm that killed an estimated 20 million people. From this c… See more

The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo set off a series of events that … See more

Those soldiers who sustained physical injuries often presented in shock, still a mysterious condition to contemporary clinicians. The idea that the body suffers some physi… See more

Those individuals who survived their initial injury were at high risk of death from infection. The unsanitary conditions of the trenches where, according to one military medical ma… See more